Apocalyptic Anxiety behind Denying Climate Destabilization

Facing Climate Destabilization fears, Hugging that Monster, means facing far more than hard times and early death. Robert D. Stolorow puts it to us:

The horror that I felt was an extreme form of existential anxiety -- the anxiety that accompanies our recognition that, as finite human beings, we are constantly threatened by impending possibilities of harm, disease, death and loss, which can occur at any time. ... represents not just the destruction of individual human beings but of human civilization itself, ... The destruction of human civilization would also terminate the historical process -- the sense of human history stretching along from the distant past to an open future -- through which we make sense out of our individual existences. I want to call the horror that announces such a possibility apocalyptic anxiety. Apocalyptic anxiety anticipates the collapse of all meaningfulness. And it is from apocalyptic anxiety that we turn away when we deny the extreme perils of climate change. [emphasis mine]

Extreme existential anxiety, the loss of all meaning, our third rail of oblivion. This is the death head terrifying us from scientific climate models. Imagining our business-as-usual destination with every threat magnifier counted, and extrapolating for a thousand years, sucks you through this black hole's horizon before you can inhale.